köken: Inherited from Middle French ambre, from Old French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, “ambergris”).
amber (colour of fossil resin) · amber (fossil resin)
çekim: çoğul ambers
eş: ambergris, barnsteen, amberkleurig
köken: In its current form first attested in the early 16th century and borrowed from Middle French ambre, from Old French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (/ambar/). However, the word was already present in Middle Dutch as emmer, ammer with assimilation of the consonant cluster -mb-; this assimilated form has not survived into Modern Dutch and developed from…
Στέρεη, κηρώδης και εύφλεκτη ουσία, η οποία παράγεται στο έντερο της σπερματοφάλαινας, με χρώμα μαύρο ή γκρι. Χρησιμοποιείται κυρίως στη βιομηχανία αρωμάτων.
ambergris (substance in perfumes) · ambergris perfume · sweet gum, liquidambar (tree of the genus Liquidambar)
çekim: çoğul ambry · tamlayan ambry
köken: Internationalism; possibly borrowed from French ambre, Italian ambra, or Spanish ámbar, ultimately from Medieval Latin ambra, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar). First attested in 1534.
köken: Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related root *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). An ancient theory by Tacitus claims this word to be a Latinization of what the Aestii, likely a Baltic people, call amber; compare Latvian dziñtars, Lithuanian giñtaras (“amber”).